Posts Tagged ‘PYR’

In the future, cities dominate, seemingly providing its citizens with everything they need to survive. Companion robots and virtual reality are everyday commodities. Coryn has grown up amidst the bustling city and burgeoning technology of her [...]

Dru Jasper, sorceress and proprietor of the Crystal Connection, has a huge problem on her hands. Sorcerers are disappearing off the streets, and the dead appear to be arising. If that wasn’t enough, there are also signs that someone is trying to [...]

“What you have in your hands is precious, not because the works here are being honored, but because they exist. Stories matter. Stories linger in the mind and change us. We want more. We need more – yes, from our beloved favorite [...]

“If you’re late to the party, the Nebula Awards are chosen every year by the members of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) […] By writers, for writers. As such, the nominators and voters tend to have a [...]

This collection of Nebula-winning short stories and excerpts excels at showing the breadth of modern science fiction. Editor Greg Bear, himself a former Nebula winner, takes the reader not only through the current winners, but he also includes a [...]

For the Aern, there are no idle oaths. A promise is binding: even a promise made hastily, in anger, which one later regrets. Oathkeeper, by J. F. Lewis, is the second book in the Grudgebearer Trilogy. Lewis has taken the backdrop of traditional [...]

In Edge of Dark human society split ages ago into humans with only basic modifications such as cosmetic and health related tweaks, and humans that had downloaded their brains into bodies of machines. These almost-AI beings were banished beyond [...]

Young Luci Jenifer Inacio das Neves, or Lucifer for short, is a thief. However, she isn’t interested in the usual jewels or valuables, not unless they’re cursed or magical items. Lucifer works to keep these dangerous items out of the hands of [...]

Earth Flight is the final book in Janet Edwards’s smart science fiction series, Earth Girl. Following the events of Earth Star, Jarra Tell Morrath and her boyfriend Fian Andrej Eklund are back with their class studying Earth history, but due to [...]

A strong beginning to a post-apocalyptic series, Falling Sky takes the zombie plague to a steampunk, airship-filled future. When the Bug first started to spread, humanity soon realized the safest place was in the sky. Ben Gold ekes out a living [...]

The fifth book in the “Cassandra Kresnov” series, Operation Shield starts off quickly and rarely slows down long enough for readers to catch a breath. After discovering the true origin of the technology used to create the GIs, Sandy [...]

The assassin Ahjvar, also known as the Leopard, has been cursed with an inability to die. Cranky and hiding out in a remote costal village with the enigmatic runaway slave Ghu, Ahjvar is called into the service of Catairanach, the very god who [...]

Earth Star is the follow up title to the young adult novel, Earth Girl. Picking up where the first novel left off, Jarra continues to battle the stigma of her being an ape — a human born with an immune system that will not allow her to survive [...]

Lives Up To the Hype! Edited by Kij Johnson PYR, $18.00, 320 pages The future is back in this wonderful collection of stories that have won Nebula Awards and have been honored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. This [...]

A Dark, Epic Fantasy for Mature Audiences By Mark Smylie Pyr, $18.00, 614 pages Mark Smylie’s The Barrow begins with a simple plot: a ragtag group of adventurers seeking buried treasure. However, things quickly become more complicated when they [...]

A Gritty New Fantasy Epic By Jon Sprunk PYR, $18.00, 430 pages Jon Sprunk’s fantasy epic Blood and Iron begins with Horace, a soldier from the west who is shipwrecked on enemy soil. Not knowing the language or culture, Horace finds himself [...]

The second book in a series The Osiris Curse is a fast-paced Young Adult steampunk adventure. The narrative follows Tweed and Nightingale, two seventeen-year-old kids who solve crimes but soon find themselves in over their heads. After following [...]

Mike Resnick’s The Doctor and the Dinosaurs follows Doc Holiday and Theodore Roosevelt as they try to convince the stubborn professor’s Cope and Marsh to dig for dinosaur bones elsewhere as the Comanche are not too thrilled at having their [...]

A Toxic Flop By Tim Lebbon PYR, $17.99, 229 pages Contagion is the final installment in the Toxic City trilogy by Tim Lebbon. Two years ago London was destroyed in a sudden attack. While the rest of the world believes what is left is a toxic [...]

A Tiresome and Bland Affair By Mark Hodder Pyr, $18.00, 395 pages Sir Richard Burton has returned triumphant from his latest expedition after making his biggest discovery yet: The Nile. Unfortunately, his success is marred by some ominous and [...]